You can receive a push notification once you've reached your selected cut-off time for, as an example, 25 minutes a day. Similar to what we've seen from Google and Apple over the last couple months, Facebook just announced new tools coming to the Facebook and Instagram apps that are created to help you use them less. [Full Article...]

After reporting sluggish earnings growth last week, Facebook has made a decision to monetize WhatsApp by display ads of businesses that link out to the messaging service, The Verge is reporting. After 24 hours, businesses will have to pay to send messages to people. Facebook paid $19bn to buy WhatsApp in 2014 and there has always been speculation about how Facebook meant to make money from i... [Full Article...]

Google said the move is to ensure consistency and app compatibility with devices that do have cutouts. In a blog post penned to application developers this week, Google laid down a few rules that Android phone manufacturers will need to take into account when designing devices. [Full Article...]

For reference, on iOS devices you can find it under Settings Dark theme . Although not yet available to all Android users, the feature has begun rolling out at random on a trial basis, and we expect it won't be long before it's widely available. [Full Article...]

Mac Otakara notes that these changes to the iPad Pros will come alongside the addition of a TrueDepth camera system for Face ID , meaning the smaller dimension sizes could be the result of smaller bezels and the elimination of the tablet's Home button. [Full Article...]

It is now the third week of season 5 and more new features and items continue to be added each week. It's sure to be a insane week for fans of Battle Royale . The skins, interestingly, are the ones players were originally promised which compared to some of the skins available in Battle Royale now, look somewhat disappointing. [Full Article...]

Charter has 30 days to appeal the commission's decision to revoke its agreement to the merger . NY regulators have revoked their approval of Charter Communications' merger with Time Warner Cable and ordered the company to find another cable provider for its more than 2 million customers in the state. [Full Article...]

New evacuation orders have been issued for the deadly Carr Fire burning near Redding. One person was killed in a raging, out-of-control wildfire that sent residents racing to flee a northern California city on Friday as flames burned homes and businesses and knocked out power, fire officials said . [Full Article...]

This shows us that Samsung is all geared to proceed in the innovation direction, exiting the safe-guarding train. Those problems are speed, battery life, and storage. GSM Arena reports that a reputable Twitter tipster, with a good track record, has indicated that the previously namechecked Samsung Galaxy X won't be a foldable device. [Full Article...]

In India, both the devices are expected to cost over Rs 14,000 to Rs 15,000. Both Xiaomi Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite will run the latest Android out of the box being Android One smartphones. It's powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 625 chip clocked at up to 2.0GHz (the same one that powered the Mi A1 ) and is offered in two configurations - one with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage space and ... [Full Article...]

Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Twitch did not respond to the Post-Dispatch's requests for comment for the story, but said in a statement after publication that the service would remove content in response to complaints from people who say their privacy was violated. [Full Article...]

According to the source, Samsung is looking to integrate the Galaxy Note series features into the Plus variant of the upcoming Galaxy S smartphones. Shipments of the Samsung Watch and smartphone are believed to begin on August 24. Korean publication The Investor cites an unnamed source inside Samsung as saying, " Samsung now does not view Al speakers as marketable, as the global market is... [Full Article...]

Vestager told reporters that the fine , the largest ever imposed by the European Commission, reflects the "seriousness and sustained nature" of the violations. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai defended the company's decision to include its own apps with Android devices. The team Fuchsia is going to replace the Android operating system, which employs three-quarters of the smartphones in the world... [Full Article...]

Epic then tested the new process by hurling millions of theoretical players at the Playground mode, in a process they refer to as the "tweak-test-evaluate cycle" to be sure that the mode could withstand being relaunched. Play 14 matches to unlock 5,000 XP. That was enough to create a backlog of queue requests, which Epic says resulted in "a feedback loop that eventually caused the system to grind... [Full Article...]

Instead, all of the previously released Warcraft content is now available for the £9.99 monthly subscription fee. Since its release way back in 2004, World of Warcraft has stuck to a very familiar revenue model. You buy the base game, and the expansions, and then the monthly subscription. The one exception to that is future expansion packs including the forthcoming Battle for Azeroth . [Full Article...]

As reported by a Polish website Spider Web, the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is expected to price PLN 4,299 ($1,159). Samsung could also ship 14-16 million Galaxy Note 10 phones next year, according to the TF Securities forecast. Noted tipster Evan Blass has shared its press render, while the hands-on images of the next-gen flagship have also been leaked on Weibo . However, the new S Pen sits alon... [Full Article...]

Amazon's 2018 Prime Day - which is actually 36 hours long - kicked off at 12 noon PT on Monday, July 16, and runs through Tuesday at 12 a.m. PT. To participate in Prime Day, you must be a Prime member. For Prime Day, Amazon has launched their biggest SanDisk sale to date, featuring unprecedented prices on microSD cards. Amazon acknowledged the technical glitches in a tweet Monday at 1... [Full Article...]

The ever-popular emoji faces now include redhead and bald versions as well as grey and curly hairstyle options. Healthy eaters will be delighted to learn that a mango and lettuce also made the cut - along with a cupcake for balance. As expected, these emoji designs were created based on approved Unicode 11.0 characters, which we shared earlier this year . Quite frankly, as far as I'm concerne... [Full Article...]

But this is Apple we're talking about, so you shouldn't be surprised. Just a few days ago Apple launched the latest additions to its MacBook Pro range , and the company talked about the fact that the keyboard is quieter. The company updated the MacBook Pro with new True Tone displays, updated processors, more RAM on the higher-end variants, and third-generation butterfly keyboards. [Full Article...]